[EKY Sportster]

Paintsville lost that game but it was their own fault. Slone had a layup with 2 seconds to go to win the game in regulation and he missed it. So don't wanna hear anything about the refs. Although one intentional foul was bull. Paintsville was down the whole game by anywhere from 8-10 and they came back to take the lead by as much as 6...They were up 3 with under a minute to go and Spring Valley hit a 3 to tie. Slone had a wide open 3, faked it and drove in the final seconds and had a layup right at the rim that he missed so the game went into overtime. It was all Spring Valley from there. Spring Valley did shoot alot more free throws..but alot of that was because Paintsville fouled them everytime they touched the ball in the last minute in a half of overtime. Paintsville gave this one away.

The Tigers are going to have to play better D. I heard that they only shot in the mid 30% range while Spring Valley shot close to 50%. That tells you a lot. The Tigers out rebounded Spring Valley so we know that they didn't have trouble controling the boards! It sounded like it was just one of those games where the Tigers played sloppy D and didn't shoot well. That is a bad situation when you play the run and gun style that Paintsville does. Hopefully they can learn from it and move on. But it will take a better game that one like this to get to Rupp!